“We’ll go up there, he’ll give us his partner, we’ll pick up his partner, his partner will say D-Block’s a lying motherfucker, will say ‘Look at me, I’m two twenty-five and ripped. I never had to use a gun in my life.’ But he’ll also tell us something, like the only guy he knows uses a .38, does inside-the-building holdups, is some character, let’s call him E-Walk. OK. Let’s go find E-Walk. Problem is, E-Walk is a solo operator, but E-Walk, it’ll turn out, will know this other stickup team we never even heard of. Go track down those boneheads. Only problem with those guys once we find them is that one was locked up at the time of the homicide and the other was in the hospital. But! The one in the hospital? He’ll know a guy that uses a .38, sometimes works with a partner, except that guy, it’ll turn out, is a light-skinned Dominican, looks almost white. But. But. But. The point of which is to say, Billy, that with your son, it’ll have to do with luck, and it’ll have to do with just plugging away, plugging away....”
- Richard Price, Lush Life